OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	21
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	18
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	10
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	7
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	6
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	6
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	5
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	5
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	5
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	5
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	5
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	4
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	4
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	4
On consular internationalism	4
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	4
Protecting concessionary rights: General principles and the making of international investment law	4
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	4
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	4
Inter-regime conversations: What barriers persist for individuals in international law?	3
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
A forgotten proponent of a league of nations and his contributions to international law	3
Bibliography	3
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	3

The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	3
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	3
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	3
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	3
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	2
China and international law: Two tales of an encounter	2
Bibliography	2
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	2
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	2
On membership of the United Nations and the State of Palestine: A critical account	2
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	2
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	2
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	2
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	2
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	2
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	2
Between the utopian imaginaries of literature and international law: The question of the insurgent child in international legal discourse and Kris Montañez’s Youth	2
Bibliography	2
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	2
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	1
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	1
‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan	1
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	1
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	1
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Bibliography	1
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	1
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	1
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	1
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	1
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	1
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp, $28.00, ISBN:	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	1
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	1
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	1
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	1
Prologue to truth: Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared and the authority of international law	1
Resistance to territorial and maritime delimitation judgments of the International Court of Justice and clashes with ‘territory clauses’ in the Constitutions of Latin American states	1
Bibliography	1
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	1
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	1
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1

LJL volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Vicarius Christi: Extraterritoriality, pastoral power, and the critique of secular international law	1
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	1
Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute	1
The reactive model of disaster regulation in international law and its shortcomings	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1